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People with larger social circles and more close friends also tend to have higher levels of self-esteem, which in turn gives them a greater feeling of control in their life.This in turn makes you more likely to take care of your health than someone who feels like they’re helpless to improve.It takes a surprising amount of courage to open up and reach out to other men – after all, it requires fighting against years of social coding and gender expectations.By trying to foster a more intimate bond with somebody, you’re tacitly making yourself vulnerable and admitting to weaknesses, which is part of how men lose status amongst other men.We’ll get together with friends to play games or watch the UFC match, but we know shockingly little about them.We get uncomfortable when they’re crying because they’ve been dumped and the best thing we can think to do is take them out and get them drunk and laid because making them not .It’s a cultural issue, part of the kabuki theater of gender roles that we still live by – men are the doers while women are the nurturers. Women are from greater levels of emotional intimacy, especially with other men. As I’ve mentioned before, men are taught to be disconnected from their emotions. and that’s pretty much just as femme-y as the other guy, so clearly the two of you might as well go out back and blow each other, right?Sharing is weakness, and weakness is something to be avoided among men. Since men are socialized to not be connected with our emotions – outside, of course, from anger and lust – we tend to from seeking emotional intimacy outside of their relationship; many people feel as though this were a potential threat to their romantic bond. (Interestingly, there is even some of this amongst gay men; there are subsets of gay men who try to compensate against the stereotype of being “queeny” by trying to be hypermasculine and straight-presenting as possible…

When you have fewer people to reach out to for emotional support when things go wrong, fewer people have your back in a crisis. Those feelings of isolation and helplessness contribute to a depressed immune system. And I don’t mean someone you game with or go out on the town or the ever classic “help you move bodies”. Having few intimate friends is quite literally dangerous to your health.How many of you have a friend – or several friends – who you can go to when you need help. Studies have found that people with fewer close friends tended to have a greater risk of death.We don’t want to risk them mistaking our openness or affection for making a pass at them.Even in this day and age with greater acceptance of homosexuality, straight men , knawhuimmsayin?